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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

Athletics Prospect Callups and Padres' Park Factors

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eno and Al discuss the latest prospects on the cusp of their major league debuts — namely, Tyler Soderstrom, Zack Gelof and Johan Rojas. Eno talks about the good and the bad of Elly De La Cruz’s attack angle and the significance of the changing park factors at PETCO Park, and he and Al dissect the waiver wire options coming out of the All-Star Break.


Rundown

1:15 The Athletics and Phillies call up top prospects

7:17 The other notable news items

15:39 Elly De La Cruz’s attack angle and other hitter developments

32:43 What we can learn from one-year park factors

39:29 Streamers/two-start pitchers

56:15 Closer corner


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody, welcome to rates and barrels. It is Friday, July 14th, happy Friday to you. I'm Al Malkyore. I'm here with

0:23.1

Ninosaurus. Welcome to our weekly weekend preview show. DVR is not here. He's still away.

0:30.4

I've got a couple more episodes to go before we get the dulcet tones of Derek Van Riper back in

0:36.4

the athletic studios here.

0:38.6

So, but, you know, lots to get to on this show.

0:42.9

That's really DVR's doing, calling it the weekend preview.

0:46.3

I like, like the framing.

0:48.0

But, you know, also just a return from the All-Star break.

0:51.8

So we've got some call-ups as we do pretty much every week, if not every episode of Rates

0:57.1

and Burials, every week on this Friday show.

1:00.0

We've got, of course, pitchers and hitters to target near fab this weekend.

1:06.1

And just some interesting general trends.

1:07.5

We'll talk a little bit about your recent piece on one-year park factors that you alluded to a little bit on the Wednesday show. But let's get into all this

1:17.2

and start with the call-ups. In fact, the A's, they went double on the call-ups, calling up a couple

1:24.5

of their top prospects, really two of the top three,

1:28.5

Tyler Sotom and Zach Gelloff.

1:32.0

So, you know, what's your thinking here in terms of redraft leagues,

1:35.9

how people should be approaching these two prospects in Fab this weekend?

1:41.0

Very carefully.

1:42.4

I think maybe even single digit vids, like maybe even don't do it. I mean,

1:53.8

I mean, I don't want to go that far because there's always a league in which it makes sense.

1:59.5

Like I said, though, we looked at the listener leagues and, you know, some of you all trend

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